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At some point in the past I was wondering how hard it would be to do sentiment analysis based on Glassdoor reviews of public companies to try and trade on the r
by rrdharan 8y ago
At some point in the past I was wondering how hard it would be to do sentiment analysis based on Glassdoor reviews of public companies to try and trade on the results.
I could swear when I dug into this I found that they had actually licensed out their dataset to a couple of hedge funds already that were doing exactly that (and paying for the privilege).
I can’t find this anymore, so maybe I am imagining things? At any rate this FT article implies there were people out there likely doing this though unclear if they paid Glassdoor for the privilege: https://www.ft.com/content/d86ad460-8802-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45787 https://www.ft.com/content/d86ad460-8802-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45...
- monkeydust 8y agoWould not surprise me given the current obsession by HF to find value in alternative data. Would be interested if you find details.
- cleansy 8y agoThe most valuable insights from this would be to get trickled insider information. Once in a while a comment gives you an insight that is not currently available elsewhere. Like unannounced layoff rounds. Statements about employee fluctuation? Reading reviews by software engineers gives you and insight about how this co is executing its IT projects.. etc.
- AznHisoka 8y agohttps://www.glassdoor.com/employers/blog/how-investors-use-glassdoor/ https://www.glassdoor.com/employers/blog/how-investors-use-g...
- xx_alpha_xx 8y agoYes, they offer their dataset to companies as a paid service. Source: my prior company paid for their entire data set and I personally used in a data science project.
- vthallam 8y ago> my prior company paid for their entire data se Are you aware of how expensive that kind of data set would be? Also curious on what any company would do with that kind of data. Predict which company employees are the happiest?